April 29th 2009 7:02 am PT

Awesome! Though I wish I had more points. -_-

Sweet! More Hasbro Family Game Night games! though, Comes to no surprise that this is just another ‘key’ to unlock the game, which was always on the main application from the start…

I’d like to support the 360 over the Wii but for Hasbro I can’t.

Just buy the Wii version, it’s HALF the price of this.

@ Xebu: I have noticed this, too. Why do Wii users get the better deal? I still bought “Sorry!” this morning, but it sure would be nice if EA/Hasbro would have similar pricing across the board for all gaming consoles. Just doesn’t seem right.

gonna get this when i get home, wife loves to play the Hasbro games.

The whole Family game night feels like a scam. I like the ability to pick and choose the games they offer, but not at 800 points a pop. They really could have slapped all the games on a disc. Anyways, they aren’t getting my money and after I told my wife the price, her interest has disappeard.

Sorry (lol?) but no dice. I could get the whole lot of six on PS2 for £9.99 (HMV.com + McDonalds voucher) while two of these comes to £10.20. I was lucky enough to win the first three and believe me, that’ll be the only way I’ll be owning this.

Are people really paying $10 for these stupid board games? I don’t think the actual board game costs more than that.

I am not one to complain about pricing and if the market can support it, then fine, but I’m not impressed with this new pricing scheme. The economy takes a downturn, people slow their discretionary spending, and XBL raises their prices on average 50%.

I dunno, I saw Battleship and Connect 4 in Argos for a tenner each in Argos, while the Game Night versions are £6.80. In the grand scheme of things, the prices for these online-enabled games with new game-types wouldn’t be that bad were it not for the fact that the PS2 and the Wii have the exact same products available at much cheaper prices.
I made a mistake in my earlier post, two of these in GBP is actually £13.60, yet I can get all six on PS2 for a tenner or on Wii for £15.
All six on 360 would come to £40.80! So with that, why should I or anyone else buy this? Online play isn’t reason enough.

Sorry!

Yeah even though this version has achievements, leaderboards and online multiplayer, that’s still not enough to justify the THIRTY dollars extra this total package costs compared to the Wii and PS2 versions.

@King W -

Most physical board games run between $15 and $20.

and if you look at a board game like Monopoly that was released on disc, they tend to be priced around $30 -$40.

So for me… I may not really like paying $10 for a digital verison of a board game… but I don’t think it should be priced for $5 either. XBL should really have more intervals in their pricing structure. 400MS, 600MS, 800MS, etc…

I will say this though.. I absolutely love playing Scrabble on XBLA… no clean up and I always have someone to play against even if some of the people can’t spell worth a dang and take forEVER. they should add a force play/pass option though. spending 10 minutes on trying to use all your letters is just stubborn and a waste of my time.

Was going to buy at $5. Not going to touch at $10.

Get your XBLA pricing models fixed, MS.

I did buy Yahtzee but won’t bother with any of the others – far too expensive (4 times the cost of the Wii version !) and if you live outside the US some the achievements are impossible to get – what the hell is the point in that ?

Waiting for Hasbro to release this on disc and then wait for a deal on the disc.

Marketing is slightly genius with their 360 release (I hate genius marketing). First, they maximize profit by releasing their games as piece meal. There will be plenty of people who are willing to buy one or two of their favorite games and a few will want them all. Then they release a disc to grab customers who don’t use XBLA. Their profit margin will be smaller on this, but it’s part of milking the product dry.

I’ll pay $20 for the entire collection new or used.

just to add to the crowd-i really would like to get all of these games for the Hasbro thingymijig…but not at these prices

I smell next week’s Deal of the Week coming up. All the Hasbro games for say, 1600 points? I’d do it.

First of all, it’s not a “download key”…the title is in the menu of the HFGN, but when you purchase it actually does download a sizeable file (just like when you download the free themes for your room). The pricing scheme didn’t make sense until I did some research and found 7 games, on XBLA, are roughly $70, and the Wii version, with 6 of the games, is $39.99…and the 7th game, Scrabble, available only on PSP and DS, is $29.99…so $70 here, you get it all on one console. $69.98 for the Wii/ DS and you can play all the games, but not on one TV, not online, and of course you lose out on the possibility of future titles (Risk, Life, and Clue, if the rumor mill is correct). I won’t make an argument for the PS2 version…if you are really buying games for the PS2 because they are “cheaper”, you get what you deserve.

Oh, and at WalMart, Toys R Us, and Target, I was shocked to find even Connect Four ran over $10 for the board game. Electronic Battleship and Scrabble Diamond were $40ish, Sorry and Sorry Sliders were in the $20-$25 range. Yahtzee was $5 at one of them, and $7-$10 at the others, so while they definitely could have marketed this better, or maybe had a retail version, these games are by no means a “rip off”, and even Connect Four turned out to be much more fun than I expected. The extra game modes really change the way you play all of the games.

@SpaceNinjaDino – Funny you should say that because on Play.com the other day I came across a listing for “Hasbro Family Game Night House Party” at £39.99, the price of a full retail game! Of course, it vanished as quickly as it had materialised. What’re you up to, EA?

oh gee thanks right after I buy Gears 2 and Halo 3 map pack.

This pricing scheme is a failure. I’ll save my points for BF 1943 – that looks sweet. If only we could get Arcade ports of Counter Strike, Team Fortress 2, Battle Field 2 etc. Infact, it would be great to have Arcade ports of just the multiplayer components of all current popular games e.g. COD4, COD5, COD5:Nazi Zombies, Halo etc.

I would love to buy all of these games, but there is no way I’m spending $10 on each game. Are you kidding me?
These are stripped down versions of great games and are nothing more than cashing in on suckers.
I mean how hard is it to put animations on Battleships so that when you fire and hit it does something, I mean hell, anything would have been better than what they did.

When they go on sale to a decent price I’m all over them, but for now, no effing way.

I gotta get this.

@kayas- you should really play the trial versions before making idiotic comments. Each and every game in the Game Nights has two or three versions, so how that is “stripped down” to you is a bit of a mystery. Battleship was very nicely done, and it’s a remake of Electronic Battleship, not “Super battleship” like the PC version (meaning they kept it like the board game). I understand this is out of some people’s price range, and that there are cheaper versions for some of the content, but hey, a football cost $5, so why buy Madden for $60…and you can play a lot of XBLA titles at Dave and Busters for fifty cents, so why buy them? Duh. If you can’t swing it, or you just don’t want it, pass. I really haven’t heard ANY “buyers remorse” over any of these titles, and in fact most people and their families have had their expectations far exceeded.

Wait, this just came out? I’ve been playin’ it on my WII for a while now. Wait… Mine was how much cheaper! LOL EA at their best. But, it is obvious that MS is pushing it right along. We’re moving the downloaded (disc free, DRM strapped) games into the same price realm as disc based games that I can take anywhere and use on any machine.

I’m not trying to be mean, especially not to Major Nelson, who I consider to be one of the best PR people I’ve ever seen, but MS needs to get a flippin’ clue. You can’t keep raising prices, or even allowing the companies who make the games to keep raising prices of downloaded content into the realm of the physical copies. The limitations are a pain for the consumer, and a lower price point justifies the pain of not being able to take it with you. The lower price point is also justified because there is not physical production (as in, burning a hundred thousand discs, hence the risk factors in physical production and the reason why games cost so much, which is understandable).

In the downloadable realm, they just stick it up, and a percentage is taken by MS for each download, and the company gets the rest. It’s a very low risk endevour for a company. Yet even with the low risk and low cost other than development, they are pushing the cost of these games into the physical copy realm, which will cause me to stop buying them and just buy a disc based game or wait until they have a “sale” on the downloadable ones. There are games I would buy, such as the family game night, if they were reasonably priced. So I bought the DISC BASED version for my Wii, and it cost nearly half as much if I were to buy the XBox downloaded ones. Do we see a problem here?

The Arcade is going downhill (again) only this time it’s not the lack of games or the fun-factor, but the unreasonable pricing structure. Sadness.

Oh excellent I just won it.

How many more years will it take MS to figure out how to handle licensing issues in Japan and Korea???